Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 10

Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to digest their food a second time; this is normal and healthy, and the hard round droppings you see are the ones they do not eat.

Who acts: Rabbits, this, you, hard round droppings · What happens: eat, make, digest, be, see, not eat · To what, where: some, soft ones, food, hard round droppings, ones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbits, this, you, hard round droppings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 eat	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 droppings	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 droppings	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 droppings	amod
7	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 droppings	appos
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ones	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 digest	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 digest	mark
16	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 food	nmod:poss
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 digest	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 digest	obl:unmarked
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 normal	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 normal	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 normal	cop
25	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eat	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 healthy	cc
27	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 normal	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ones	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ones	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 droppings	det
31	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 droppings	amod
32	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 droppings	amod
33	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ones	nsubj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
35	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 droppings	acl:relcl
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 ones	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ones	det
38	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 normal	parataxis
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 eat	nsubj
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 eat	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 eat	advmod
42	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ones	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Rabbits	some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
2	make	participle		soft ones not said here	night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	digest	to-infinitive	Rabbits not said here	rabbits's food	time		tree rules
4	is	present	this			normal property	tree rules
5	be		this not said here				tree rules
6	see	present	you	the hard round droppings not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dropping=Stimulus
7	is a	present	the hard round droppings	the ones			tree rules
8	not eat	present · do-support	rabbits = rabbit	the ones not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:10.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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